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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
While true, that doesn't necessarily mean he is egocentric or selfish. Personally, I think he is getting bad advice, most likely from his father. Dad's attitude is that Baertschi deserves an NHL spot now and has gone out of his way to ensure the world knows. Guaranteed he is telling Baertschi the same things.
So when you have guy who is still quite impressionable, who is frustrated at being demoted (as anyone would be), and is hearing from a trusted source that he deserves better, it becomes easy to believe. End result is that Sven doesn't go down to the AHL with a good attitude (implied by comments from minor league coaches that "his attitude has improved"), that cycles back up to Burke, Treliving and Hartley, and the whole thing snowballs.
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I suppose this could be true. If that is the case, I feel sorry for Baertschi, it sounds like he has a lot of growing up to do. The average 22 year old isn't this susceptible to their parents meddling in their lives.
Besides Feaster, I really can't fault any of the management for Baertschi's downfall. He was obviously rushed, and perhaps that led to Sven's issues. I just don't see how Burke or especially Treliving are to blame here. If anything, they were trying to undo Feaster's hyping/rushing him and shrink his head a bit. Damage was already done.
It was how Sven's camp reacted to the team deciding that pumping his tires wasn't the best way to get him to be more of a team player, to see the bigger picture, that was the catalyst for all this IMO. Shame it didn't work out better, but even if Baertschi didn't need to be handled with kid gloves, I don't think he is good enough to play here anyway. We have lots of forward prospects that are just as good or better and don't have daddy issues as baggage or such issues with confidence/maturity. Only so many spots available and there are lots of other options going forward.